Rooftop Object Callout Over the UVU Courtyard
What This Image Shows
The frame is a wide daylight view of the tiered courtyard at Utah Valley University, with dozens of people sitting on the grass and standing near metal crowd-control barricades, a white pop-up canopy at the right, and the campus buildings behind. A yellow magnifier callout is superimposed in the center of the image, enlarging a tiny, blurry white object sitting near the roofline of one of the background buildings. The overlay text reads CROWDSOURCE THE TRUTH and GigaSync, and the letters UVU are visible on the upper window of the building at the right.
The callout is the whole point of the graphic. Independent researchers have spent months enlarging rooflines in publicly posted courtyard footage looking for figures, equipment, or objects that the official account does not place there, and this image is one product of that effort. What the enlarged pixels actually represent is not established — at that distance and resolution a white blur can be a person, a vent, a piece of equipment, or a compression artifact, and no official release has identified it.
It is filed with the FBI material because roofline questions are exactly the questions that turn on footage the public has not been given. The bureau and the university have kept the high-resolution campus video out of public hands, so the only images available for this kind of analysis are the low-resolution ones. Read UVU HD Footage Withheld and Rooftop Video Trimmed for the record on what was released and what was not, and UVU Surveillance for the camera layout. The courtyard itself is mapped at Courtyard.